Slog AM: 8.8 Earthquake Rattles the Pacific Ocean, Columbia City Funeral Home Damaged by Fire, the Pacific Science Center's Mechanical Dinosaurs Get the Boot

Slog AM: 8.8 Earthquake Rattles the Pacific Ocean, Columbia City Funeral Home Damaged by Fire, the Pacific Science Center's Mechanical Dinosaurs Get the Boot

The Stranger's morning news roundup by Charles Mudede At around 3 pm our time on Monday, one of the most powerful earthquakes on record hit the Kamchatka Peninsula, a remote region of Russia that has a population of 290,000. The people there surely felt it, but no one, according to recent reports, was killed or seriously injured. The world-historical seismic event triggered tsunami warnings in Hawaii, French Polynesia, Japan, Peru, and Chile. It…